An icon is a graphic image, small picture, or object that represents a file, program, web page, or command.
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What are some good tools to create 3D icons?
I really like icons like those created by SoftFacade.com:
I read the interview from one of their founders, where he mentions that they use "3d tools" without going into specifics.
Now I am looking ...
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Is there an icon set containing icons for different platforms/stores (e.g. App Store, Play, Windows 8 Store, etc.)
Is there an icon set containing icons for different platforms/stores (e.g. App Store, Play, Windows 8 Store, etc.)?
I am interested in grayscale icons similar to Glyphish and Glyphicons.
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jquery mobile user interface vectors or something very similar?
Does anyone know where to get jquery mobile vector .ai files preferrable?
In need to do some mockups in high quality for print but cannot find any ilustrator or vector psd templats for this.
Is there ...
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Photoshop action to export icon resources for OS X app?
Is there a photoshop action for exporting a 1024x1024 canvas as all the required icon resources for a OS X app?
Seems like something the design community would have made, but I can't find anything so ...
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How to create a light border for an app icon
This is a fine piece of iPhone app icon:
I'm wondering how they created the fine texture along with the slight 'glow' on the edges:
I suppose the texture is made by a semi-transparent layer on ...
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How can I symbolize credit? [closed]
I'm trying to think of a way to graphically represent the idea of credit, as in money owed. Are there any conventional solutions to this?
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Add a new layer to a set of button icons
A designer has created (for money) a set of button icons (Facebook, Settings, ...) for me, where all buttons have the same rounded rectangle outline:
Now I need to add few more buttons, for example ...
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New generation of Save icon that is not a “disk”?
Currently, the save icon in almost all applications represents a 3.5-inch disk from the 20th century. An example from Microsoft Office 2010 is shown below:
As we move towards more advanced ...
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How do you create Icon Fonts?
Ive seen many examples of people using icon fonts but I am wondering what is the best way to execute this process. An example of icon fonts: Raphaël Icon-Set via @font-face. A tutorial I have read. ...
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Where can I find icons / vector art of everyday objects?
I am designing an application that requires between 100 - 200 icons / vector art of everyday objects - grandma, banana, boat, etc.
The resource that I've found that is closest to my needs is The Noun ...
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Creating an .ico file with multiple sizes - web application
I want to be able to create an .ico file containing a complete set of Windows icons (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 256x256). Is there a web application that can do this for me given a png or bmp that is ...
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How to save as ico in Photoshop CS6
This plugin to save as .ico in photoshop has been around for a while, but I can't seem to make it work for CS6. According to this question in the Adobe Forums, the plug-in works if installed in ...
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How do I create a professional quality desktop icon?
I would like to create a professional quality icon. Currently, I have created an icon with IcoFX. The icon looks great -- when it is scaled at the right size. When it gets scaled to the wrong size, ...
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I downloaded an icon pack, how do I get each icon separately?
I just downloaded the icons from http://www.entypo.com
Say I want to just get the lightning bolt icon, how do I get that specifically from the PSD file, and since it's vectored, at the resolution I ...
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Is there an ISO or similar recognized standard for Icons?
I had this question popping out while viewing some ISO standards such as ISO 9142.
I searched a little but couldn't find an explicit ISO standard that is specifically for Computer Icons.
So, has ...
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How to get started for a HAL 9000 [closed]
I really would love to make my own HAL 9000 icon, and there are plenty of them out there, seemingly created from scratch in Photoshop.
Could someone point me out, how to get started on this? What ...
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Getting started with App-Icon-Design
I want to start designing my own icons.
I already have some experience with Photoshop and I made some icons using a tutorial.
Do you have any tips on how to learn icon design?
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How do you export a font from Glyphs
I just made some small tweaks to an OTF icon-font (iconic) and now I'm having trouble exporting this modified font. Have I missed something? Can you export from Glyphs to an OTF or TTF?
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What do you call these infographic icons?
What do you call these simple, basic types of graphic elements that are used in infographic commercials, and the like? They are vector based, look like pixel art, but have smooth edges, and are ...
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Issues with creating a hi-res Large Icon for Android notifications in Jelly Bean
I am attempting to create beautiful hi-res graphics for Android notifications, but am running into some issues. In Jelly Bean, there is a new place for large icons (see the notification design ...
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The most legible sans-serif question mark for small sizes?
Trying to come up with the most legible sans-serif question mark for my Google reCAPTCHA's help icon. The ones that Google use are either too retro or too unreadable (below).
I want a question mark ...
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Exporting iconsets to XAML
I am currently working on a GUI and iconset in Illustrator which will be exported (using a plug-in) to XAML.
While GUI elements can be exported by placing them in a new file, this becomes a lot of ...
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Problems altering font icon set in Fontlab
I found a nice social icon set as font: http://www.tajfa.com/projects/rondo/
What I now want is to remove the circular borders around them, but when I open them with Fontlab Studio 5 I only see a ...
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Icon to best convey “Make a new post”?
What icon would best convey "Make a new post"? Can't think of any, considering just spelling out "Make a new post" instead.
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How to clone the iPhone Camera app's gradient?
I have finished the development of an app. Now I have to worry about the icon ;-)
To align with the built-in app, I want the gradient of the my icon background looks like the built-in Camera app, ...
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How to save padding around an icon and make it a part of it - Photoshop CS3
I have an icon with the dimensions 24px × 23px. The canvas is 24px × 24px: There is 1 transparent pixel at the top of the icon.
After I use the rectangular marquee tool to copy and paste the icon to ...
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Header for free, Open Source plugin (translates UI into user language)
We're about to publish a free, open source plugin that translates the WordPress admin UI into the users language. This plugin will be freely available in the official wp.org plugin repository. Now we ...
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Looking for an elegant icon-set similar to Glyphish or Glyphicons, but colorful
Does anybody know a decent and modern icon-set similar to Glyphicons that is colourful?
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Creating graphics for Android/iOS/Mobile Devices
I've created icons many times now with tons of great information I've learned here at GraphicDesign StackkExchange. Now, I'm finally putting together my first real application that will go public on ...
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What's an appropriate icon to represent the concept of 'all'
In my app, I have a collection of objects that I'm allowing the user to filter. To represent each filter, currently starred objects, watched objects and the user's object, I use the icons pictured ...
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Create an “pressed in” look
I'm trying to recreate a fairly common look, but I really like how it is executed on getpebble.com
The getpebble.com icons are on the left, and my disaster of an attempt is on the right. As much as I ...
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Is it possible to change the layer visibility (eye) icons to be more readable, in Photoshop Elements 11?
In previous versions of Photoshop Elements, the eye icon appeared as opened or closed to indicate a layer's visibility. In Photoshop Elements 11, the layer's visibility is only indicated by a diagonal ...
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How to combine multiple png icons into one transparent iconset
What software can I use to combine multiple transparent png and icon files into one transparent iconset?
Example:
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Is there an icon set for displaying “All”, “Some”, and “None” states?
Is there an icon set for displaying "All", "Some", and "None" states?
For example, an icon for "All categories", one for "Some categories", and one for "No categories".
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Is there an icon set of cartoonish faces?
Commercial or free. Something similar like these:
http://dribbble.com/shots/482481-3d-Face
http://dribbble.com/shots/121074-Face-Process
http://dribbble.com/shots/685520-Face-Replace-iOS-Icon
I ...
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How to make red icon on gray background less jarring?
My app has a button to record or play videos. When there are problems with this feature, we notify the user by overlaying an exclamation point. This "red !" UI works OK elsewhere in the app but on ...
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Why is OS X using my 32px@2x icon instead of scaling down the 128px icon?
I'm making a custom folder icon similar to the ones in the Home folder (Pictures, Documents, etc).
To do so, I extracted the images from the .icns of the blank folder icon and photoshopped my own ...
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Help finding or making a white flag glyph [closed]
I'm more of a programmer than designer so forgive me. I am looking to sharpen my UX design skills though.
I found plenty of websites that give impressive sets of glyphs and icons, but I've been ...
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How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
When looking online for icons to use on my websites, I often find very well designed free icon sets.
However, often these icon sets are only available on a single size - for instance the icon set ...
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Need advice on reducing icon size without loss in detail [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
I'm redesigning the icon for my Android application.
I designed it at 512x512 and then rescaled it to 96x96 and 32x32. However, it ...
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Why are some details of an icon fuzzy?
I've created an icon in Illustrator for an iPhone app.
When the icon is in the size for the iPhone, parts of the graphic fuzzy. How can I improve the details on the icon? My icon is a clock, and it ...
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Best workflow for icon design: Start big, or start small?
When designing icons that need to be delivered at several sizes, do you start at the smaller size, then scale up to the bigger sizes? Or do you start big and scale down?
There's several advantages to ...
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What tool or tutorial to use to inject a word into an existing icon?
I want to create icons easily. Is there any tool (or tutorial) that can help creating beautiful semantic words that can be added to an existing icon?
Example:
Suppose that we have this icon:
and we ...
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Sharpening iOS Icons
I'm creating an iOS app and have a couple custom icons for my navigation bar. The first one is a plus sign and that came out pretty well. I also have a refresh icon and it's not as sharp as the plus ...
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How to draw a image transparent in photoshop?
This arrow is transparent image.
I want to draw an icon like this image (transparent) in Photoshop.
The idea behind this is I want to colour the icon by using gradient tool in my app.
It would ...
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How to group ico files
A while ago I noticed some .ico files actually came in "packs" that contained the same image in different sizes. I now need to create one of those packs (I have 10 different sizes). Do I need a ...
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Jagged lines on my icons
I'm creating an app and I am trying to create some icons for it. I made the icon in AI, changed the color of the icon in Fireworks, and then resized the icon to the exact size I needed in Photoshop. ...
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Where to find high-quality icon sets?
I'd like to change the style of our Windows Mobile application to follow the Modern UI style (as in Windows 8 or Windows Phone 7). While there are excellent guidelines for layout, fonts and sizes, I'm ...
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Align to pixel grid problem
I'm designing small icons for screen, I'm using align to pixel grid. One problem I've encountered is aligning a compound path to the grid.
This is the letter "O", which is a compound path, when I ...
